The father-son duo currently has three sauces (Chicken Fire, Beef Fire and Pork Fire) on the shelves of 30 grocery stores in the northwest. They're made with a combination of water, tomato paste, apple cider vinegar sugar, mustard powder a mysterious blend of 5 peppers, and other ingredients.

"I've been cooking for a long time," said Gary Fleenor, 55. "I've come up with all kinds of concoctions ever since [my two sons] were little."

The idea for the company got started two years ago when Devin moved back home.

"The recession came and hit my previous profession pretty hard," Gary Fleenor said. "I was kind of starting to run down this road on this sauce business. I looked at him one day and said, 'Hey, I'm starting over. You're starting out. Let's try this.' And he said sure."

It's a business partnership like most, with the distinction that it's a father and son from Garden Home who often finish each other's thoughts and sentences. The two work out of their home-based business in Garden Home and the sauce is manufactured in Lake Oswego.

"I could never actually want a better business partner," Devin Fleenor said. "We agree on the same base things, like when it comes to what direction we want to take our company, how we want to express our corporate culture."

Gary Fleenor added he would not have been able to see the company come this far without his son.

"The only difference between him and I is simply the fact that I have more experience than he does. Other than that, he's my equal," Gary Fleenor said.

They say they're breaking into an untapped category: spicy condiments.

"I've been reading a lot of articles about how the American pallet is enjoying more spicier, more aggressive flavors like pickles, hot sauces and stuff like that," said Devin Fleenor, 23, chief of operations and "future inheritor." "We're just trying to broaden that market."

"Bring more choices to the grocery store," Gary Fleenor said.

And people are buying, they said.

"We're not making any money right now with 30 grocery stores," Gary Fleenor said. "The name of the game right now is increasing our footprint."

Until then, they're not coming out with anything new. But that doesn't mean they don't have ideas. The two have the company's growth planned out to some very specific details.

"Oh, we can even see comic books coming," Gary Fleenor said. "Basically we want to tell a story with our bottle art as we grow so people can get involved with what we're doing and the storyline behind this wolf."

They've even got stories thought out for new characters as their "wolf pack," or line of sauces, grows.

Why a wolf?

The idea for the company name and logo was inspired by the story of OR-7, a male gray wolf who left his pack in Oregon in 2011 and has been tracked ever since.

Similarly, Gary and Devin Fleenor also track where you can find Howling Sun products on a Google map.